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MHT 216: Mental Health and Aging

This document outlines the expectations for this course from week to week.

Content: this column refers to the Lesson Plans and activities

Graded material is posted below in RED.

Schedule Content Special Dates
Week 1

Begins Monday January 12
Graded work is due January 18 at midnight

  • Introduction to the Course
  • Lesson 1: Conceptual Foundations of Geriatric Mental Health (Chapters 1 + 2)*
    • Lesson 1 Quiz
    • Lesson 1 Discussion
  • Lesson 2: The Study of Adult Development (Chapter 1)**
    • Lesson 2 Discussion

 

 
Week 2 Begins Monday January 19
Graded work is due January 25 at midnight
  • Lesson 3: Erikson and Generativity (Chapter 4)**
    • Lesson 3 Quiz
  • Lesson 4: Does Wisdom Increase with Age? (Chapter 9)**
    • Lesson 4 Quiz
  
Week 3

Begins Monday January 26
Graded work is due February 1 at midnight

  • Lesson 5: Interviewing and Assessment (Chapters 3 + 4)*
    • Lesson 5 Discussion
    • Lesson 5 Quiz

 
Week 4

Begins Monday February 2
Graded work is due February 8 at midnight

  • Lesson 6: Healthy Aging (Chapter 7)**
    • Lesson 6 Discussion
  • Lesson 7: Do People Really Change Over Time? (Chapter 11)**
    • Lesson 7 Quiz
  • Lesson 8: Retirement, Play, and Creativity (Chapter 8)**
    • Lesson 8 Discussion
    • Lesson 8 Assignment

 
Week 5

Begins Monday February 9
Graded work is due February 15 at midnight

  • Lesson 9: Benefits, Entitlements, and Community Services
    • Lesson 9 Quiz
    • Lesson 9 Assignment
  • Lesson 10: The Americans with Disabilities Act
    • Lesson 10 Quiz

 

 
Week 6

Begins Monday February 16
Graded work is due February 22 at midnight

  • Lesson 11: Cognitive Changes and Impairment (Chapters 5 + 6)*
    • Lesson 11 Quiz
  • Lesson 12: Emotional Maturation (Chapter 2)**
    • Lesson 12 Discussion A
    • Lesson 12 Discussion B
  
Week 7

Begins Monday February 23
Graded work is due March 1 at midnight

  • Lesson 13: Alzheimer’s and Dementias (Chapters 7 + 8)*
    • Lesson 13 Discussion
    • Lesson 13 Quiz
    • Lesson 13 Assignment
 
Week 8

Begins Monday March 2
Graded work is due March 8 at midnight

  • Lesson 14: The Past and How much it Matters (Chapter 3)**
    • Lesson 14 Discussion
  • Lesson 15: Managing Behaviors and Symptoms (Chapter 9)*
    • Lesson 15 Discussion

 
Week 9

Begins Monday March 9

  • Spring Recess

 
Week 10

Begins Monday March 16
Graded work is due March 22 at midnight

  • Lesson 16: Mood Disorders (Chapters 10)*
    • Lesson 16 Quiz
  • Lesson 17: Anxiety Disorders (Chapter 11)*
    • Lesson 17 Assignment
  • Lesson 18: Schizophrenia (Chapter 12)*
    • Lesson 18 Discussion
 
Week 11

Begins Monday March 23
Graded work is due March 29 at midnight

  • Lesson 19: Substance Abuse in Late Adulthood (Chapter 13)*
    • Lesson 19 Discussion
  • Lesson 20: Other Psychiatric Conditions (Chapter 14)*
    • Lesson 20 Assignment
 
Week 12

Begins Monday March 30
Graded work is due April 5 at midnight

  • Lesson 21: Family, Caregiver, and Residential Care (Chapter 15)*
    • Lesson 21 Discussion
    • Lesson 21 Assignment

 

 
Week 13

Begins Monday April 6
Graded work is due April 12 at midnight

  • Lesson 22: Keeper of Meaning (Chapter 5)**
    • Lesson 22 Discussion
  
Week 14

Begins Monday April 13
Graded work is due April 19 at midnight

  • Lesson 23: Elder Abuse (Chapter 17)*
    • Lesson 23 Discussion
  • Lesson 24: Capacity (Chapter 16) *
    • Lesson 24 Discussion
    • Lesson 24 Quiz
  
Week 15

Begins Monday April 20
Graded work is due April 26 at midnight

  • Lesson 25: End of Life Care (Chapter 20)*
    • Lesson 25 Assignment
  • Lesson 26: Spirituality, Religion, and Old Age (Chapter 10)**
    • Lesson 26 Discussion

Analysis of a Poem is Due
Week 16

Begins Monday April 27
Graded work is due May 3 at midnight

  • Lesson 27: Integrity (Chapter 6)**
    • Lesson 27 Quiz
  • Lesson 28: Positive Aging (Chapter 12)**
    • Lesson 28 Discussion